Re: Help with sendmail ?

From	Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: Help with sendmail ?
Date	2026-01-31 21:22 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<10llrqb$37blf$8@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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On Sat, 31 Jan 2026 21:03:09 -0000 (UTC), Lars Poulsen wrote:

> I know from previous experience, that I should have STARTTLS
> enabled, because sendmail does not allow passwords to go on plain
> text TCP connections.

Maybe not what you want to hear, but perhaps this is a good time to
give up on Sendmail, and switch to a more rationally-designed MTA.

The Debian default MTA is Exim, but speaking personally I have little
to no experience with that myself; my go-to MTA has mostly been
Postfix.

Comparing Sendmail and Postfix, with Sendmail I was never quite sure
of what I was doing; even after I succeeded in configuring it to do
something, I had little confidence that I could repeat the feat again.
With Postfix, all the configuration options made some kind of sense
(explained in detail in the docs), so after having done something, I
had good confidence that I could perform the same configuration task
again.

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Help with sendmail ? Lars Poulsen <lars@beagle-ears.com> - 2026-01-31 21:03 +0000
  Re: Help with sendmail ? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-01-31 21:22 +0000
    Re: Help with sendmail ? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-02-01 03:02 +0000
      Re: Help with sendmail ? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-02-01 10:58 +0000
        Re: Help with sendmail ? Lars Poulsen <lars@beagle-ears.com> - 2026-02-01 15:22 +0000
          Re: Help with sendmail ? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-02-01 20:12 +0000
          Re: Help with sendmail ? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-02-01 20:43 +0000
          Re: Help with sendmail ? Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2026-02-02 10:39 +0100
            Re: Help with sendmail ? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-02-02 21:29 +0000
  Re: Help with sendmail ? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-01-31 23:10 +0100
    Re: Help with sendmail ? Resolved! Lars Poulsen <lars@beagle-ears.com> - 2026-02-01 01:03 +0000
      Re: Help with sendmail ? Resolved! Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-02-01 02:27 +0000
      Re: Help with sendmail ? Resolved! c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-02-01 00:34 -0500
  Re: Help with sendmail ? Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2026-02-01 10:53 +0100

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